A team of students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy investigated whether recycling facilities could effectively sort plastics by the sounds they ...

Globally, 496 million tons of plastic are produced each year and 267 million tons are wasted — or about the weight of 3.4 million adult blue whales. A new study, published in Resources, Conservation, ...

Nearly seven years ago, two doctoral students at Brandeis worried about how much plastic was being thrown away from the university’s labs. So they turned the problem into a business venture, called ...

It is often said that the world cannot recycle its way out of the plastic pollution crisis. And statistics underscore the reality of that statement. To date,less than a tenth of all the plasticever ...

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), Washington, has formed the Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA), a collaborative effort designed to unite the polystyrene (PS) and expandable polystyrene ...

The agency is moving toward resurrecting a proposal from the first Trump administration to ditch Clean Air Act regulations.

Your plastic to-go cups are now “widely recyclable.” That’s according to an announcement made in February by Starbucks, the ...

Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're ...

You probably know someone — maybe it’s you — who hates to throw away yogurt cups, plastic bags, old phone chargers and all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Globally, 496 million tons of plastic are produced each year and 267 million tons are wasted — or about the ...